‘We wanted to make something visceral’: Ainslie Clouston on cutting through the noise with ‘Paper Dolls’

Given the premise of Paramount+ and Helium Pictures’s new drama Paper Dolls, about five aspiring singers in the late ’90s who are selected to form a pop group, it is fitting the actors who portrayed them were similarly put through their paces before filming.

To prepare for their roles as members of the girl group Harlow, Emalia, Courtney Clarke, Miah Madden, Courtney Monsma, and Naomi Sequeira underwent an intensive six-week boot camp in which they recorded the original music featured in the series, working wi...